January 14 2009, 9:35 am PT | Posted in: Hair Cloning
Here’s an out-of-the-box question. If hair cloning ever becomes a viable procedure, once the hairs are implanted in the head, if it’s the same hair that’s cloned, won’t they all fall out at the same time? So we’d have a full head of hair for a period of time and then be bald for a period of time.
You have some interesting ideas. Your theory may be correct, but theory and reality do not always correlate. We will just have to wait and see. I suppose it is possible that you will need to have many different hairs cloned if your theory holds true.
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no, not all the hairs would be cloned from the exact same follicle, the surgeons could just select a variety so the cloned hairs are in different stages
Okay, that seems a tad difficult though.